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Haha, ok Yeah, the 1 day premium, lol, and the one lootbox (dud) for completing is very lackluster, but in the sense that the rewards are free it aint all that bad Looking at the Chrismas event as a whole package it aint that bad (they could have mentioned that the PR was only gonna be free for hardcore grinders) The dockyard lower stages gave some nice Coal and FXP rewards + some valuable signal Like Hydra, Basilisk etc. Also the grind up to Goritzia gave a lot of "shipbuilding" containers (with little of value in them) And all the snowflakes with Coal and Steel

I dunno, burned a few Thunderers with my Zao, they burn real good and lacking the Conq superheal they dont handle it well. For me choice was Smolensk, Thunderer or Yoshino, I have the Geogia, Jean Bart and Salem I have long range snipers, Yamato, Republique and I have the Conqerour so no need. I have, Zao and Azuma so no real feel for the Yoshino (ok them 20 k torps may do some damage) The Smolensk stands out with its "gimmick" spam, so I went for the Smolensk.

Played 39 battles in it with 67% winrate, average damage 75 k, best I did in it was 145k (so nuthing spectacular there) Dunno how I play it, most games are from after the sigma nerf but before the Carriers "happening" I did have 11km Secondary range on it, no manual secondaries (better they just pop off in all directions ) also fire prevention and Basics of Survivability Never bothered with the captain Concealment expert as its spotted from the moon anyway My best bet is lurk in background taking a few potshots, use cover from islands and choose your moment to charge in all "fast and furious" It dies fast in HE spam so keep moving

Yes it was good Also got loads of cammos, coal, FXP and cammos from the shipbuilding, very happy about that From the snowflakes I got enough coal for the Smolensk with over 90 k coal to spare (and a few k steel) I never tried to grind it, was impossible for me but I did unlock the Goritzia today so that is good too I guess

Good day mostly in the in the Zao Yesterday was horrible 9 out of 10 game lost today it flipped the other way 11 out of 12 were wins

Oil = bonuses from the Naval Base makes it worth while My internet is a bit "wonky", I have timeouts, disconnects so playing clan battles or any sort of teams is not really an option. For the same reason I have more or less given up on ranked, I only play the first few battles to get the initial bonuses

I made my own clan for the rewards, only me and one other in it (me and my son)

Yesterday I lost 10 out of 12 games in the Zao Wasnt like I was derping, teams were just bad. One of yesterdays around 10 Zao games was a 171 k game.. still a loss Today I get this MM and winrate 9/10

Havn´t paid for any boosts but I have recieved a load of signal, flags, FXP, coal, containers, this is positive The snowflakes are nice too, have over 200 ships so there was a lot of snowlakes to knock off, recieved enough coal for the Smolensk and some steel too. WG came out all wrong with the PR grind, they made it sound like anyone could grind it but in reality it was only people with money ore loads of free time to play that got it. Still I like the dockyard, maybe something they can implement in the game as a regular feature (with some tweaks to grind levels)

Couldnt Yoshi play a "Zao game" burn the PR whilst launching torps from range ? 12 k yes but in a kite / chase situation torps would still be dangerous, Yoshi is a half knot faster so PR would not easily close the distance also wiggling to get the rear guns out would cost speed and increase risk of torps. Guess we will never know for sure unless we get to see 2 equally skilled players play 20 one on one battles in training room (play 10 then switch ships) It may not be all that easy for PR

Havn´t seen this before

PR waterline/underwater citadel must count for something Close range the 2.2 sigma PR would be getting citadels on Yoshino with almost every shot while the Yoshino would have a hard time citadelling th PR Yoshino has 4x4 torps with reasonably good angle on the forward set. 23.700 max damage/torp So if both enter brawl with full HP and PR doesnt break Yoshino torps the PR is prolly gonna die, Yoshi may well die too from multiple citadels before the torps hit If PR fails to sink Yoshi but breaks forward set of torps Yoshi has aft set My gut feeing is that the Yoshino would win most of the time But why would the Yoshino enter the brawl when he doesnt need to ?

Was commander on a 40mm Bofors during my army service, for sure the AA sound is nothing like the ear splitting crack of the gun firing 4 shells/sec No headset/ear protection would leave your ears ringing for days

Have 357 days premium (most of it from santa crates) If the game is still worth it next Christmas I guess I will be either be getting more crates or more discounted premium time

Like the dockyard, hope they keep it They could have it so that people with no money could have grinds / campaigns to get premiums And yes, if you have money but no time for a grind, buy it . (but see to it that u need to have some set level of skill before buying yourself into tier 8-10) The grind level needs to be toned down a bit though, the Christmas event didn´t really have that "Christmas giving" feel to it (for any time of the year it was high) Price of "Buying" the Puerto Rico is 35000 dubloons = £95 Expensive, but it is a tier 10 Tier 9 Jean Bart is £53 Georgia costs £52 For me grinding the PR would probably take a month 3-4 hours / day, I can buy it with less than the earnings of 1 day at work (which makes grinding a bit stupid)

I blew some FXP and got the Zaö

I wonder when they are gonna nerf the Italian cruisers, especially mid tier seem way OP

How many in your team have a ship with no flags or cammo ? No map awareness. Never look at the map. No game awareness. All the time fully scoped in on some distant ship. No idea where enemy ships are or what capabilities they have, where is the enemy Des Moins gonna park and radar and why ? Where is Stalingrad ? Where is the Asashio ? Where is the Smolensk ? What ships have hydro ? What ships have accurate guns ? How far can the North Carolina guns shoot ? Where are torps coming from ? Where is crossfire dangerous ? Where is the enemy pushing ? Can we and when can we push a cap ? Where is the enemy weak so team can push ? Will the team support a push or are you on your own ? Can we get a flank/crossfire ? With a game so complex you pretty much have to played every ship to remember what its strenghts and playstyle is. You need to be able to see what is happening and who is derping /who needs backup/what to do and when and this is most likely only gonna happen if you played a shitload of games. So bottom line: Its too easy to get a tier 7-8-9-10 so we have a complex game with too many low skilled and inexperienced players derping at high tiers, this and the MM not mixing the teams in a balanced way based on game experience leads to crap games and roflstomps happening.

My issue is the short time the server accepts packet loss, I get short lag spikes 5-15 sec a few time / day. So the server kicks me out. If the server had accepted a longer timeout I would never be kicked. I have changed all my equipment, computer, router etc, even the fibebernet router, still the same. The problem is somewhere downroute to WG server. Speedtest reports 583 mbps down and 581 up with a ping of 4 ms

Pretty good but a loss

Yeah but no money in means no development (neither good nor bad) and the population will go down eventually (that being said they could have saved a lot of money if they never thought about carrier rework and research bureau)

Keep in mind that it´s the whales that pay for the nice game we all enjoy playing

Doesn´t sound like it will make much difference. Give it either reload or speed Dont touch the stealth that is Jap strength

Ok, didn´t know that. As an employee he does of course need to be loyal to his employer

Well, if he quits/gets fired (or whatever) it´s a loss for WG. I like his youtube videos, they are very informative, he is honest about ships, grinds, prices etc. One of their best CC:s. I will miss him.